Prominent Theosophist and educator, husband of Dora van Gelder Kunz, who later became president of the North American section. As a very young man, Fritz assisted Charles Leadbeater in California, then on a lecture tour of the East Coast, and finally on a world tour. All the travelling delayed his high schooling, which he completed at age 20. After graduation with a BA in literature from the U of Wisconsin, Kunz spent a year assisting in the founding of Krotona in California, at which point he received an offer from Leadbeater to be the principal of a Buddhist school in Colombo, Ceylon, Ananda College. He held that position for three years, supervising building improvements, but also becoming increasingly involved in the social unrest as he tried to improve educational and social opportunities for the "least fortunate. The British were consequently not pleased, suppressing social unrest, calling for martial law; at the point when one of his teachers, a Mr. Menon, was shot to death by the troops, and word of Fritz's imminent arrest and imprisonment reached him, he moved suddenly to India, taking up publishing and other duties as required for Annie Besant.
Ultimately returning to America and achieving his MA (the doctorate may have been honorific), Fritz married Dora van Gelder in 1927, and son John was born in 1928.
Ultimately returning to America and achieving his MA (the doctorate may have been honorific), Fritz married Dora van Gelder in 1927, and son John was born in 1928.
Prominent Theosophist and educator, husband of Dora van Gelder Kunz, who later became president of the North American section. As a very young man, Fritz assisted Charles Leadbeater in California, then on a lecture tour of the East Coast, and finally on a world tour. All the travelling delayed his high schooling, which he completed at age 20. After graduation with a BA in literature from the U of Wisconsin, Kunz spent a year assisting in the founding of Krotona in California, at which point he received an offer from Leadbeater to be the principal of a Buddhist school in Colombo, Ceylon, Ananda College. He held that position for three years, supervising building improvements, but also becoming increasingly involved in the social unrest as he tried to improve educational and social opportunities for the "least fortunate. The British were consequently not pleased, suppressing social unrest, calling for martial law; at the point when one of his teachers, a Mr. Menon, was shot to death by the troops, and word of Fritz's imminent arrest and imprisonment reached him, he moved suddenly to India, taking up publishing and other duties as required for Annie Besant.
Ultimately returning to America and achieving his MA (the doctorate may have been honorific), Fritz married Dora van Gelder in 1927, and son John was born in 1928.
Ultimately returning to America and achieving his MA (the doctorate may have been honorific), Fritz married Dora van Gelder in 1927, and son John was born in 1928.
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